Re: tracking commit timestamps

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Steve Singer <steve(at)ssinger(dot)info>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Anssi Kääriäinen <anssi(dot)kaariainen(at)thl(dot)fi>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: tracking commit timestamps
Date: 2014-11-25 14:51:44
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYSMz2dTPTFWj66R-vC2ShgM3qGj1vbW-34CTO38-kteg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> And here is v10 which fixes conflicts with Heikki's WAL API changes (no
>> >> changes otherwise).
>> >
>> > After some slight additional changes, here's v11, which I intend to
>> > commit early tomorrow. The main change is moving the test module from
>> > contrib to src/test/modules.
>>
>> When I specify the XID of the aborted transaction in pg_xact_commit_timestamp(),
>> it always returns 2000-01-01 09:00:00+09. Is this intentional?
>
> Well, when a transaction has not committed, nothing is written so on
> reading we get all zeroes which corresponds to the timestamp you give.
> So yeah, it is intentional. We could alternatively check pg_clog and
> raise an error if the transaction is not marked either COMMITTED or
> SUBCOMMITTED, but I'm not real sure there's much point.

Maybe 0 should get translated to a NULL return, instead of a bogus timestamp.

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Robert Haas
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